Surname

Lã

Lã is a surname from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Lã comes from Chinese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Lã’s family of names

In Vietnamese usage, Lã as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Lữ.

Walk Lã’s family in the name graph

LãLữ

The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Chinese

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Sibling ideas

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